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NewslettersWinter 2005 Issue

Sow Evil & Reap An Epidemic!

When one considers the appalling state in which birds are kept, then
is there any wonder that we should have a threatened world epidemic of
Asian Flu? I refer not to the third world countries, nor to those that
lack a Christian foundation but to those in which the vast majority were
initiated in to a branch of Christendom via child baptism.

On one hand one has the Latin countries in mind; civilisations
nurtured in to Catholicismís ethics. While elsewhere we have the older
Orthodox brand of Christian teaching. Yes, while in the New World we
have the teaching of what the original Pilgrim Fathers taught and
exemplified. Well, there seems to have been quite a moral lapse within
passing centuries.

Photos By Doreen Thompson

Yes, and at no time more marked than in Britainís agricultural
heritage with its rapid integration and diversion in to factory farming
during the latter part of the last century! For, whereas, there are
still parts of Britain surrounded by spacious fields, one will
frequently find them deserted; and meanwhile fowl are confined to foul
sheds that, more often than not, reek to high heaven. Yes, and nearby
one may well have found the culprits who run such animal hellholes
running a local church or chapel.

The majority of those who claim to be followers of the Good Shepherd
- and delight to sing hymns such as the 23rd Psalm to the delightful
tune Crimond! - have become as far removed from a biblical shepherdís
compassion towards vulnerable life as was a priest and Levite who passed
by an abused victim on the Jerusalem to Jericho Road.